Tuesday, January 31, 2006

The All-New Statesman

"Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have scripted a stage show based around Alan B'Stard, the right-wing Tory character in their sitcom ' The New Statesman'. Starring Rik Mayall the live show will tour the country from April to August. The show is based around how the MP has cynically reinventing himself as a Blairite!"
 
Woooooo! :D

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Planetarium

I can't find anything online about this just yet, but according to this lunchtime's BBC London News, the London Planetarium is to close.
Announced today by its parent company, Madame Tussauds, this is apparently due to falling visitor numbers. In its place will be an extension of their adjacent property and tourist attraction, the famous Madame Tussauds waxworks, from this summer.
In short, I find this to be fucking shocking. Replacing real stars with 'stars'. How boring. I know which I'd rather see.
 
Still, the Royal Observatory here in Greenwich is at present building its own planetarium, due to open in 2007, so I suppose it's not a TOTAL loss...
 
I hate the world of celebrity.

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Worst Briton

Apparently, Jack the Ripper is the Worst Briton of the past 1000 years. Brilliant!

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Greenwich Palace

Since I live there (in Greenwich, not the Palace), this was quite interesting. Right outside one of my classrooms.

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Limits on .com price

Bloody bastards been screwing us over for years... Finally!

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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Lib Dems' latest woes

I'm not sure when it will start to get any better for the Liberal Democrats. They seem to have just had problem after problem after problem this month. Of course, the latest scandle, concerning the apparent 'gay' relationship(s) of one of their leadership contenders, is a bit hypocritical of a society currently obsessed with equality and so on.
Nevermind any arguments about personal privacy for now, but having an homosexual relationship is effectively being made out to be evil and wrong in the media at the moment, which of course it is not.
I'm aware that half of the issue is that he has said previously that he is 100%, totally heterosexual, but still, I really don't see what the problem is. I honestly couldn't give a shit what my MP does outside of the House, as long as they represent me to at least some degree of competency.

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Charles warns of 'supersized' UK

"Research... suggests that walking or cycling for just half an hour a day can have a significant improvement on our state of health. But why don't we do it more?"

Referring to research by fellow speaker Dr Richard Jackson, the prince said it was often "because our towns and cities make it nearly impossible, and because it might help if the built environment was more attractive and appealing to the pedestrian".
 

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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Tour de France

It's been announced today that the 2007 Tour de France will begin in London.
 
I'm not exactly sure how a 'Tour of France' can take in foreign countries, but I really hope that it begins in, or at least goes through, Trafalgar Square, and past Waterloo Station.

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Thursday, January 19, 2006

A lesson to learn

Interesting Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned football Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4. Pope died

Interesting Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned football Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament
4. Pope died

Lesson Learned?
The next time Charles gets married, for heaven's sake, someone warn the Pope.

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Sunday, January 15, 2006

Political correctness really is mad

I just heard this on TV, and although I can't find anything online about it, I thought I really did have to comment.
Apparently St. Paul's Cathedral in Central London has been denied a lottery grant as it is "too Christian" and so "not accessible" to the wider public (despite most of the country being Christian anyway (or so I am lead to believe)).
Meanwhile, the same lottery grant for which St. Paul's was turned down, was awarded to a Chinese community centre at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but St. Martin-in-the-Fields is also Christian, and a Chinese community centre doubly "not accessible", seeing as you have to be not only Christian, but Chinese, in order to get any real level of usage out of it.
I could go on, pointing out that Christianity is all about inclusion and not being exclusive to Christians and so on, nevermind the fact that St. Paul's Cathedral receives millions of visitors a year, from every faith, belief, denomination and nationality, but I really can't be bothered.
 
It's just stupid.

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Eminem remarries

I did laugh when I read this.
Rap star Eminem, who recorded numerous tracks illustrating his hatred for ex-wife Kim, has remarried her. They famously fought a bitter battle over custody of daughter Hailie when they divorced in 2001, so I've got no idea what went on here, but I thought it was fairly amusing.

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Saturday, January 14, 2006

Gordon Brown makes sense!

Well, here's a turn-up for the books. Gordon Brown saying something I can agree with.
 
Britain should have a day to celebrate its national identity, Gordon Brown has proposed in a speech portraying Labour as a modern patriotic party.
The chancellor used his first major speech of 2006 to urge Labour supporters to "embrace the Union flag".
In an address to the Fabian Society, he said it is important the flag is recaptured from the far right.
 
He should, of course, have gone further and said that there should be more celebration of Englishness, but I guess that's pushing it for a Scottish politician. Still, it'll be interesting to see what (if anything) comes of this. I'm sure there will be some black and/or Asian fool claiming it's racist.

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Tony Blair head of the UN?

I'm not sure what Bill Clinton has been smoking this time, but apparently he thinks that Tony Blair would make a good UN Secretary General.
Not so sure about this myself... A spineless, opinionless fool at the head of the UN? Well, I guess stranger things have happened.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

RMT

Shut up. Just shut the fuck up, you fucking communists, and get back to work.
 
I really hope LU fire them all.

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Sunday, January 08, 2006

Ruth Kelly: The Final Insult

The woman is absolutely barmy, I'm sure of it. With her annoying face and even-more-annoying voice, she has apparently granted permission for a sex offender to work as a teacher. She is absolutely off her rocker. I'm all for forgiveness and all that crap, but if this had been done by a Conservative education secretary, under a Conservative Government, she, and her comrades, would be calling for his (or her) immediate resignation.
God, she is so fucking annoying.

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Friday, January 06, 2006

George Galloway (cont.)

Oh, and I just noticed this bit. Absolutely brilliant.
 
Mr Galloway listed his pet hates as "drunkenness, bad manners, bigotry and ignorance".
Presenter Davina McCall said the MP's main loves in life are "his daughter, sunbathing and sex".
 
I just really hope those interests are mutually exclusive.

Look into my eyes...
"Look into my eyes..."

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George Galloway

Actress Helen Mirren on her MP, George Galloway, after his entrance to the Celebrity Big Brother House;
 
"Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician."
 
I really couldn't have put it better myself.

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Cor!

Look at that Raq! [sic]

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Michael Barrymore

So, some guy drowned in his pool.
Woopee shit.

Let the guy get on with it.

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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Animal activists

More trouble than they're worth. Kill 'em all.

Or sterilise them, at very least.

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Monday, January 02, 2006

Dad's Army

For some reason, whenever I see Dad's Army, I get a craving for fish and chips.

No idea why, but it taunts me regularly.

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The Top 50 Greatest Comedy Films

Well, same old same old. Hilariously crap rankings for the most part. The general lineup wasn't bad, and if it had been presented 'in no particular order', I'd have agreed, but come on, Shaun of the Dead the 4th greatest comedy film of all time? That's funnier than the film itself.

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Sunday, January 01, 2006

The UK's Favourite Song

What utter, utter tripe. The whole list.
If he hadn't died and become effectively martyred, people would have seen John Lennon for what he was; a boring, hypocritical, talentless poo.

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